Description

Presented here is a short book, published by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1870, which gives an overview of the work of the church’s mission to Siberia during the 1860s. The mission was part of a drive by the church to Christianize the native peoples of Siberia in service of a wider effort by the Russian state to Russianize the territory. Many of the missionaries to Siberia were skilled linguists who translated Orthodox texts into local languages. The book was written by Parfeni (born Peter Tikhonovich Popov, 1811–73 ...